[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-0.9.13

[Daniel Veillard]

  Okay the new release is out and available as uauls at
    ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/

along with rpms generated on Fedora16, the git tree is tagged too.
As suggested earlier it seems that the rate of commits is slowing
down a bit, for example it took one month an a half to accumulate the
300+ commits of this release, considering that there is uauslly a
slowdown during the summer months I plan to push the next release at
the end of August, well unless there is a lot of activities or something
urgent to push in the meantime.

This release is rather rich, quite a few features and a lot of
improvements:

Features:
- S390: support for s390(x) (Thang Pham and Viktor Mihajlovski)
- snapshot: implement new APIs for esx and vbox (Eric Blake)
- list: add virDomainListAllSnapshots API (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: new query APIs (Eric Blake)
- virsh: Allow users to reedit rejected XML (Michal Privoznik)
- nwfilter: add DHCP snooping (Stefan Berger)
- Enable driver modules in libvirt RPM (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Default to enable driver modules for libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange)
- storage backend: Add RBD (RADOS Block Device) support (Wido den Hollander)
- sVirt support for LXC domains (Daniel P. Berrange)

Documentation:
- virsh: Cleanup virsh -V output (Doug Goldstein)
- configure: show correct default argument in help (Marc-André Lureau)
- fix typo in virDomainDestroy API doc (Christophe Fergeau)
- virsh: fix few typos on desc command (Martin Kletzander)
- virsh: Update vol-create-as manpage (Michal Privoznik)
- virsh: Tweak attach-* documentation (Michal Privoznik)
- small typo in formatdomain.html (Laine Stump)
- client rpc: Improve debug messages in virNetClientIO (Jiri Denemark)
- minor fixes to domain interface documentation (Laine Stump)
- link to FLOSS Weekly podcast, virt blogs (Eric Blake)
- examples: add consolecallback example python script (Dave Allan)
- Fix typo in comment start (Daniel P. Berrange)
- typo in acceleration element (Martin Kletzander)
- Improve docs about compiling libvirt from GIT (Daniel P. Berrange)

Portability:
- Fix compilation on older sanlock (Daniel Veillard)
- Fix unused parameters / functions in virsh on Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Update to latest GNULIB to fix compat with Mingw64 toolchain (Daniel P. Berrange)
- winsock2.h must always be included before windows.h (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Switch automated builds to use Mingw64 toolchain instead of Mingw32 (Daniel P. Berrange)
- openvz: Fix wordsize on 64 bit architectures (Guido Günther)
- Fixes for check and rpm builds without sanlock (and qemu) (Martin Kletzander)
- Fix Win32 build by linking to ole32 (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add impl of APIs to get user directories on Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange)
- fix building error on non fedora system (Wen Congyang)
- Add stub impl of virNetlinkEventServiceLocalPid for Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix build when configuring with polkit0 (Jim Fehlig)
- build: fix virnetlink on glibc 2.11 (Eric Blake)
- Fix build compat with older libselinux for LXC (Daniel P. Berrange)
- build: really silence the 32-bit warning (Eric Blake)

Bug Fixes:
- build: use correct limit for unsigned long long (Eric Blake)
- nwfilter: Fix memory leak (Stefan Berger)
- network_conf: Don't free uninitialized pointers while parsing DNS SRV (Peter Krempa)
- storage: Error out if the target is already mounted for netfs pool (Osier Yang)
- events: Don't fail on registering events for two different domains (Michal Privoznik)
- Don't install systemd service files executable (Guido Günther)
- fix a bug of ref count in virnetserver.c (Hu Tao)
- Fix deadlock on libvirtd shutdown (Jim Fehlig)
- openvz: check pointer size instead of int (Guido Günther)
- domain_conf: fix possible memory leak (Martin Kletzander)
- error: Fix typos in argument checking macros (Peter Krempa)
- LXC: fix incorrect DEBUG info (Gao feng)
- LXC: fix memory leak in lxcContainerSetupExtraMounts (Gao feng)
- LXC: fix memory leak in lxcContainerGetSubtree (Gao feng)
- LXC: fix memory leak in lxcContainerMountFSBlockHelper (Gao feng)
- qemu_agent: Wait for events instead of agent response (Michal Privoznik)
- Fix launch of libvirtd when DHCP snooping support is not available. (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: fix potential dead lock (Wen Congyang)
- virsh: Null terminated the string memcpy from buffer explicitly (Osier Yang)
- qemu: Fix off-by-one error while unescaping monitor strings (Peter Krempa)
- virsh: Don't generate invalid XML in attach-disk command (Peter Krempa)
- client rpc: Fix error checking after poll() (Daniel P. Berrange)
- client rpc: Send keepalive requests from IO event loop (Jiri Denemark)
- Fix typo in RPM specfile (Daniel P. Berrange)
- python: fix snapshot listing bugs (Eric Blake)
- qemu: Don't overwrite security labels (Michal Privoznik)
- rpc: Fix memleak in virNetMessageEncodeHeader (Michal Privoznik)
- Fix privileges on /var/run/libvirt directory (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Only migrate profile in non-privileged libvirtd instance (Daniel P. Berrange)
- snapshot: avoid virsh crash with older servers (Eric Blake)
- LXC: fix memory leak in lxcContainerMountFSBlockAuto (Gao feng)
- LXC: fix incorrect parameter of mount in lxcContainerMountFSBind (Gao feng)
- util: Fix deadlock in virLogReset (Jiri Denemark)
- Assign correct address type to spapr-vlan and spapr-vty. (Li Zhang)
- command: avoid potential deadlock on handshake (Eric Blake)
- qemu: better detection of crashed domains (Martin Kletzander)
- command: avoid deadlock on EPIPE situation (Eric Blake)
- Fix sync issue in virNetClientStreamEventRemoveCallback (Radu Caragea)
- qemu: avoid closing fd more than once (Wen Congyang)
- command: check for fork error before closing fd (Wen Congyang)
- fdstream: avoid double close bug (Eric Blake)
- command: avoid double close bugs (Eric Blake)
- avoid fd leak (Wen Congyang)
- avoid closing uninitialized fd (Wen Congyang)
- lxc: return correct number of CPUs (Martin Kletzander)
- leak_fix.diff (Stefan Berger)
- Fix typos in RPM dependencies (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove more bogus systemd service dependencies (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu_hotplug: Don't free the PCI device structure after hot-unplug (Peter Krempa)
- Fix potential events deadlock when unref'ing virConnectPtr (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: Don't delete USB device on failed qemuPrepareHostdevUSBDevices (Michal Privoznik)
- nodeinfo: Get the correct CPU number on AMD Magny Cours platform (Osier Yang)
- nodeinfo: avoid probing host filesystem during test (Eric Blake)

Improvements:
- Remove sub-mounts under /dev when starting an LXC container (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix vm's outbound traffic control problem (Eiichi Tsukata)
- conf: Don't shadow error from virGetDomain() (Peter Krempa)
- maint: include ignore-value in internal.h (Peter Krempa)
- vbox: Add support for virConnectListAllDomains() (Peter Krempa)
- virsh: Add domdisplay cmd for VNC, SPICE and RDP (Doug Goldstein)
- AUTHORS: Update (Michal Privoznik)
- S390: Added sysinfo for host on s390(x). (Thang Pham)
- S390: Fixed core identification for s390 (Viktor Mihajlovski)
- S390: Fixed Parser for /proc/cpuinfo needs to be adapted for your architecture (Thang Pham)
- S390: Override QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI for s390x (Viktor Mihajlovski)
- storage backend rbd: Do not prefix rbd: on volume names. (Wido den Hollander)
- qemu: Improve error if setmem fails for lacking of balloon support (Osier Yang)
- Include the default listen address in the live guest XML (Daniel P. Berrange)
- storage: Introduce --inactive for pool-dumpxml (Michal Privoznik)
- storage: Switch to new def on pool-destroy (Michal Privoznik)
- Support bind mounting host files, as well as directories in LXC (Daniel J Walsh)
- Allow NOCONFIGURE=1 to make autogen.sh skip ./configure (Daniel P. Berrange)
- virsh: Use virXPath wrappers for vncdisplay cmd (Doug Goldstein)
- Add support for shared sanlock leases (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add support for guest bind mounts with LXC (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add support for RAM filesystems for LXC (Daniel P. Berrange)
- virsh: Improve error when trying to change vm's cpu count 0 (Peter Krempa)
- qemu: Add xhci support (Gerd Hoffmann)
- virsh: add support for virConnectListAllDomains and clean up cmdList (Peter Krempa)
- virsh: Rename namesorter to vshNameSorter and clean up indentation (Peter Krempa)
- Initialize random generator in lxc controller (Jim Fehlig)
- storage: Set the perms if the pool target already exists for fs pools (Osier Yang)
- snapshot: require existence before returning success (Eric Blake)
- drivers: Implement virListAllDomains for drivers using virDomainObj (Peter Krempa)
- Fix default USB controller for ppc64 (Dipankar Sarma)
- list: add qemu snapshot list support (Eric Blake)
- list: new helper function to collect snapshots (Eric Blake)
- list: provide RPC call for snapshots (Eric Blake)
- list: provide python bindings for snapshots (Eric Blake)
- list: use the new snapshot API in virsh when possible (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: expose new flags in virsh (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: add additional filters when getting lists (Eric Blake)
- virsh: make domiftune interface help string consistent (Martin Kletzander)
- snapshot: merge count and name collection (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: merge domain and snapshot computation (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: use metaroot node to simplify management (Eric Blake)
- conf: Add helper for listing domains on drivers supporting virDomainObj (Peter Krempa)
- conf: Store managed save image existence in virDomainObj (Peter Krempa)
- remote: implement remote protocol for virConnectListAllDomains() (Peter Krempa)
- python: add API exports for virConnectListAllDomains() (Peter Krempa)
- lib: Add public api to enable atomic listing of guest (Peter Krempa)
- Add a custom 404 error page for the website (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu_agent: Add some more debug prints (Michal Privoznik)
- snapshot: use new virsh function for snapshot-list (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: new virsh function factored from snapshot-list (Eric Blake)
- autogen: Always abide --system (Cole Robinson)
- Check for errors when parsing bridge interface XML (Jim Fehlig)
- Add more debug logging for libvirtd startup (Daniel P. Berrange)
- schema: Update domain XML schema (Osier Yang)
- virsh: allow the user to specify vmcore's format (Wen Congyang)
- qemu: allow the client to choose the vmcore's format (Wen Congyang)
- qemu: implement qemu's dump-guest-memory (Wen Congyang)
- Always pivot_root event if the new root source is '/' (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Improve error message diagnosing incorrect XML CPU mode (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: Enable disconnecting SPICE clients without changing password (Peter Krempa)
- virsh: Report name from edited object (Michal Privoznik)
- virsh: Honor reedit opts printing to a function (Michal Privoznik)
- network: fully support/use VIR_NETWORK_XML_INACTIVE flag (Laine Stump)
- Add some missing hook functions (Daniel P. Berrange)
- server rpc: Remove APIs for manipulating filters on locked client (Jiri Denemark)
- rpc: Remove unused parameter in virKeepAliveStopInternal (Jiri Denemark)
- rpc: Do not use timer for sending keepalive responses (Jiri Denemark)
- client rpc: Separate call creation from running IO loop (Jiri Denemark)
- rpc: Add APIs for direct triggering of keepalive timer (Jiri Denemark)
- rpc: Refactor keepalive timer code (Jiri Denemark)
- client rpc: Drop unused return value of virNetClientSendNonBlock (Jiri Denemark)
- client rpc: Just queue non-blocking call if another thread has the buck (Jiri Denemark)
- client rpc: Don't drop non-blocking calls (Jiri Denemark)
- client rpc: Use event loop for writing (Jiri Denemark)
- build: fix 'make dist' on virgin checkout (Eric Blake)
- build: silence gettext warning (Eric Blake)
- openvz: wire up domainUpdateDeviceFlags (Guido Günther)
- openvz: add persist parameter to openvzSetDiskQuota (Guido Günther)
- Introduce virDomainFSIndexByName (Guido Günther)
- python: use simpler methods (Eric Blake)
- qemuProcessStop: Switch to flags (Michal Privoznik)
- snapshot: implement new APIs for qemu (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: RPC for new query APIs (Eric Blake)
- snapshot: add 'virsh snapshot-info' (Eric Blake)
- Two RPM conditional fixes for RHEL-7 (Daniel P. Berrange)
- snapshot: virsh indentation cleanup (Eric Blake)
- virsh: make tree listing more flexible (Eric Blake)
- virsh: remove limits on tree listing (Eric Blake)
- buf: support peeking at string contents (Eric Blake)
- Update AUTHORS (Osier Yang)
- LXC: Delete unused variable src in lxcContainerMountBasicFS (Gao feng)
- msg_buf_size is unsigned long not size_t (Guido Günther)
- Only check for cluster fs if we're using a filesystem (Guido Günther)
- snapshot: add virDomainSnapshotRef API (Eric Blake)
- Fix missing ) in 2 strings (Cole Robinson)
- maint: make it easier to copy FORTIFY_SOURCE snippet (Eric Blake)
- build: fix build without i18n (Eric Blake)
- spec: Build against systemd for udev (Cole Robinson)
- build: fix build of fresh checkout (Eric Blake)
- build: ensure storage driver is used (Eric Blake)
- rpc: Size up RPC limits (Michal Privoznik)
- rpc: Switch to dynamically allocated message buffer (Michal Privoznik)
- build: fix 'make distcheck' issues (Eric Blake)
- tests: Refresh qemu-1.1.0 data (Jiri Denemark)
- virsh: Back out if the argument for vol-create-as is malformed (Osier Yang)
- virsh: Accept UUID as an argument for net-info and net-start (Osier Yang)
- virsh: Accept UUID as an argument for storage commands (Osier Yang)
- Fix for parallel port passthrough for QEMU (Beat Jörg)
- util: fix "make rpm" when viratomic.h is used (Laine Stump)
- build: allow building with newer glibc-headers and -O0 (Eric Blake)
- fix make syntax-check failed (Wen Congyang)
- build: fix sc_prohibit_readlink (Eric Blake)
- file: Log closing filedescriptors (Jiri Denemark)
- command: Fix debug message during handshake (Jiri Denemark)
- virsh: Switch from generated cmd*Edit commands to nongenerated (Michal Privoznik)
- nwfilter: Add multiple IP address support to DHCP snooping (Stefan Berger)
- nwfilter: move code for IP address map into separate file (Stefan Berger)
- qemu: move -name arg to be 1st in "ps x" output (Marti Raudsepp)
- qemu: fix netdev alias name assignment wrt type='hostdev' (Laine Stump)
- tools: make virt-pki-validate work with acls and xattrs (Martin Kletzander)
- build: include augeas-gentest.pl into dist file (Wen Congyang)
- build: use same perl binary throughout build (Eric Blake)
- build: fix testing of augeas files in VPATH builds (Eric Blake)
- build: silence warning from autoconf (Eric Blake)
- virCommand: Extend debug message for handshake (Michal Privoznik)
- build: Fixed generating of libvirt_qemu_probes.h (Martin Kletzander)
- build: don't lose probes.o files (Eric Blake)
- build: fix missing dependencies for libvirt-qemu.so (Eric Blake)
- build: don't clean a file that belongs in the tarball (Eric Blake)
- virsh: avoid strncpy (Eric Blake)
- build: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake)
- Introduce virMacAddr typedef (Stefan Berger)
- Santize the reporting of VIR_ERR_INVALID_ERROR (Daniel P. Berrange)
- build: silence libtool during tests (Eric Blake)
- Fix linking to DTrace probes file (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Autogenerate augeas test case from default config files (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Re-order config options in qemu driver augeas lens (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix mistakes in augeas lens (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Standardize whitespace used in example config files (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove uid param from directory lookup APIs (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix check for socket existance / daemon spawn (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove last usage of PATH_MAX and ban its future use (Daniel P. Berrange)
- maint: avoid new automake warning about AM_PROG_CC_STDC (Jim Meyering)
- build: silence libtool warning on probes.o (Eric Blake)
- tests: run valgrind on real executables, not libtool wrappers (Eric Blake)
- qemu augeas: Add spice_tls/spice_tls_x509_cert_dir (Douglas Schilling Landgraf)
- tests: back to short test names (Eric Blake)
- maint: ignore more files from version control (Eric Blake)
- Add sentinel for virErrorDomain enum (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add parsing for VIR_ENUM_IMPL & VIR_ENUM_DECL in apibuild.py (Daniel P. Berrange)
- security: Switch to C99-style struct initialization (Michal Privoznik)
- Add test case for loading driver modules (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Override default driver dir when running from GIT (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Split QEMU dtrace probes into separate file (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Replace RTLD_LOCAL with RTLD_GLOBAL (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Ensure LXC driver links against libblkid explicitly. (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove libvirt_test.la library (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix broken linkage of libvirt_driver_nodedev.la (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Only build server side drivers as modules (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix dep from libvirt-lock-sanlock RPM (Daniel P. Berrange)
- openvz: add quota argument when creating container (Guido Günther)
- openvz: support file system quota reporting (Guido Günther)
- Introduce filesystem limits to virDomainFSDef (Guido Günther)
- Introduce virDomainParseScaledValue (Guido Günther)
- util: export virBufferTrim (Laine Stump)
- virBuffer: add way to trim back extra text (Eric Blake)
- build: fix unused variable after last patch (Eric Blake)
- nwfilter: Add support for ipset (Stefan Berger)
- Adds support to param 'vcpu_time' in qemu_driver. (Hu Tao)
- Add a new param 'vcpu_time' to virDomainGetCPUStats (Hu Tao)
- tests: add ich6 codec type test to qemuxml2argv-sound-device (Marc-André Lureau)
- qemu: honour sound <codec> sub-elements (Marc-André Lureau)
- domain: add <codec> sound sub-element (Marc-André Lureau)
- qemu: test CAPS_HDA_MICRO (Marc-André Lureau)
- nodeinfo: test more details (Eric Blake)
- Add a virLogMessage alternative taking va_list args (Daniel P. Berrange)
- build: fix recent syntax-check breakage (Eric Blake)
- qemu: Rollback on used USB devices (Michal Privoznik)
- Reject any non-option command line arguments (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remount cgroups controllers after setting up new /sys in LXC (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Trim /proc & /sys subtrees before mounting new instances (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Avoid LXC pivot root in the root source is still / (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Mount fresh instance of sysfs/selinux in LXC (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Convert the LXC driver to use the security driver API for mount options (Daniel Walsh)
- Add security driver APIs for getting mount options (Daniel Walsh)
- Add support for LXC specific SELinux configuration (Daniel Walsh)
- Use private data struct in SELinux driver (Daniel Walsh)
- Don't enable the AppArmour security driver with LXC (Daniel Walsh)
- Pass the virt driver name into security drivers (Daniel Walsh)
- Remove bogus udev.target dep from libvirtd unit (Daniel P. Berrange)
- qemu: Add support for -no-user-config (Jiri Denemark)
- Set a sensible default master start port for ehci companion controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix logic for assigning PCI addresses to USB2 companion controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Fix virDomainDeviceInfoIsSet() to check all struct fields (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Remove redundant trailing slash in user dir paths (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Allow stack traces to be included with log messages (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Move user libvirtd socket out of abstract namespace (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add openvz_util.c to POTFILES (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add bundled(gnulib) to RPM specfile (Daniel P. Berrange)
- openvz: determine kb/pages only once (Guido Günther)
- libvirt-guests: Remove LISTFILE if it's empty when stopping service (Osier Yang)
- qemu: Set memory policy using cgroup if placement is auto (Osier Yang)
- qemu: Use the CPU index in capabilities to map NUMA node to cpu list. (Osier Yang)
- Assign spapr-vio bus address to ibmvscsi controller (Li Zhang)
- sanlock: fix locking for readonly devices (David Weber)
- nodeinfo: add some more tests (Eric Blake)
- nodeinfo: drop static variable (Eric Blake)
- maint: fix AUTHORS (Eric Blake)
- Use XDG Base Directories instead of storing in home directory (William Jon McCann)

Cleanups:
- Remove accidentally added Patch: lines from mingw-libvirt.spec.in (Daniel P. Berrange)
- Add /tools/libvirt-guests.service to .gitignore (Guido Günther)
- sanlock: Properly indent (Michal Privoznik)
- Remove stray debug fprintf in XML parser (Daniel P. Berrange)
- util: Fix the indention (Osier Yang)
- LXC: avoid useless duplicate memory free (Gao feng)
- driver: Clean up driver header to space indentation (Peter Krempa)
- build: fix whitespace damage (Eric Blake)
- build: hoist qemu dependence on yajl to configure (Eric Blake)
- maint: command.c whitespace cleanups (Eric Blake)
- Revert "rpc: Discard non-blocking calls only when necessary" (Jiri Denemark)

  thanks everybody for the contributions, be it bug reports,
documentation fixes, patches, etc. !

Daniel

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